Eric K. Shinseki

News about Eric K. Shinseki, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Jun. 3, 2014

Letter from Rep Beto O'Rourke of Texas responds to May 31 article on Eric Shinseki's resignation as head of the Veterans Affairs Department. MORE

May. 31, 2014

Eric Shinseki resigns as secretary of Department of Veterans Affairs in face of furor on delayed medical care for veterans; his resignation leaves behind a sprawling bureaucracy embroiled in scandal and burdened with a decades-old legacy of overwhelmed facilities and management failures that his successor must now confront. MORE

May. 31, 2014

News analysis; quick exit of Eric Shinseki, Department of Veterans Affairs secretary, suggests that Pres Obama is unwilling to endure the long political nightmare of the health care website debacle; it also underscores the more fundamental danger to Obama as he once again finds himself on the defensive over issues of basic management of the federal government. MORE

May. 31, 2014

Editorial asserts that while resignation of Sec Eric Shinseki from Veterans Affairs Department over scandal there was inevitable, Shinseki was not cause of department's problems; says that department has been broken for years; urges lawmakers to continue investigations into events at Phoenix hospital and to carry out reforms in best interest of nation's veterans. MORE

May. 30, 2014

Republican House Speaker John A Boehner and minority leader Rep Nancy Pelosi both say replacing Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki will not solve core issue of unacceptable wait times and secret waiting lists at Veteran Affairs health centers around country; broadening scandal will challenge parties to rethink future of veterans medical system. MORE

May. 29, 2014

Report by Richard J Griffin, acting inspector general of Veterans Affairs Dept, finds that 1,700 veterans at medical center in Phoenix were not placed on official waiting list for doctors' appointments and may never have received care; report validates allegations raised by whistle-blowers and others that VA officials falsified data to hide long delays and increases pressure on Eric Shinseki, secretary of veteran affairs, to step down. MORE

May. 22, 2014

Pres Obama stops short of dressing down Eric Shinseki, secretary of veterans affairs, but makes it clear that growing scandal at Dept of Veterans Affairs has put future of the retired four-star general on the line; allegations that veterans hospitals manipulated waiting lists in order to hide long delays for treatment have created a political storm for the Obama administration, and many Congressional Republicans and two House Democrats are calling for Shinseki to resign. MORE

May. 17, 2014

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki ousts Dr Robert A Petzel, department’s soon-to-retire head of health care; move comes amid snowballing allegations that veterans hospitals manipulated waiting lists to hide long delays many patients faced to see physicians; firing comes one day after Shinseki deflected calls from unhappy senators urging him to shake up his leadership team. MORE

May. 16, 2014

Richard J Griffin, acting inspector general of Veterans Affairs Dept, tells Senate committee that federal prosecutors are looking to determine whether criminal violations occurred at a medical center in Phoenix accused of falsifying data or creating secret waiting lists; scrutiny is growing over medical treatment received by veterans, and some Republican senators are calling for resignation of Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki. MORE

May. 15, 2014

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki will face sharp questions before Senate Veterans Affairs Committee over allegations that secret waiting lists were used to cover up delays for veterans seeking medical care, and whether any might have died as result; testimony suggests he may not respond in any detail to questions about what happened at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Medical Center. MORE

May. 9, 2014

House Committee on Veterans' Affairs votes to subpoena head of Veterans Affairs Dept Eric Shinseki and other top officials, stepping up scrutiny of the agency amid allegations that secret waiting lists were used to cover up long delays for doctors’ appointments. MORE

May. 8, 2014

American Legion calls for Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki and two other senior department officials to step down; demand comes amid reports of problems in the department, including accusations that department's medical center in Phoenix, and possibly other veterans hospitals, has falsified records. MORE

May. 19, 2013

Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki faces mounting criticism over backlog of disability benefit claims filed by wounded or ill veterans; new conservative-leaning nonprofit organization Concerned Veterans for American produced Web video calling for Shinseki's resignation and is sponsoring a similar online petition, which has been signed by more than 9,000 people. MORE

National Desk

Paul D. Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary, opened a two-front war of words on Capitol Hill, calling the recent estimate by Gen. Eric K. Shinseki of the Army that several hundred thousand troops would be needed in postwar Iraq, ''wildly off the mark.''

February 28, 2003nytfrontpageNews

Foreign Desk

Turkey signaled that it was prepared to allow American troops to use its bases to attack Iraq. At the same time, the assessment of a postwar force from Gen. Eric K. Shinseki was far larger than estimates by other American officials and surprised senior Defense Department aides.

February 26, 2003worldNews

Foreign Desk

The new Chief of Staff of the Army, Gen. Eric K. Shinseki vowed to redouble the Army's efforts to become a more agile yet powerful force, acknowledging that the service was ill prepared to move 24 Apache helicopter gunships and artillery into Albania in the early stages of the Balkans air conflict.

{"type":"article","show_header_text":false,"header":"ARTICLES ABOUT ERIC K. SHINSEKI","query":"(per=\"SHINSEKI, ERIC K\" or per=\"SHINSEKI, ERIC\") and tom!=\"Caption\" and tom!=\"Correction\" and tom!=\"List\" and tom!=\"Paid Death Notice\" and dsk!=\"Society\"","search_query":"(persons:\"SHINSEKI, ERIC K\" OR persons:\"SHINSEKI, ERIC\") AND -type_of_material:\"Caption\" AND -type_of_material:\"Correction\" AND -type_of_material:\"List\" AND -type_of_material:\"Paid Death Notice\" AND -news_desk:\"Society\"","num_search_articles":"10","show_summary":true,"show_byline":true,"show_pub_date":true,"hide_thumbnails":false,"show_kicker":false,"show_title":false,"show_related_topics":true,"show_rad_links":true,"show_subtopics":true,"exclude_topics":"SHINSEKI, ERIC K;SHINSEKI, ERIC","exclude":["",""],"more_on_header":"MORE ON ERIC K. SHINSEKI AND:","alternate_index_subidx":"","show_thumbnails":true}

An administrative judge has upheld the dismissal of Sharon Helman, the Phoenix director, finding misconduct to support her ouster but saying the department did not prove that she was responsible for delays in care.